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545 48. [When] he meets the guests with his eyes, he utters hing; [when] he greets [them], he preludes; [when] he offers water, he sings the udgīthá; [when] he presents [food], he responds; the remnant (úchiṣṭa) [of the food] is the conclusion: the conclusion of etc. etc.

49. When (yát) he calls the distributor, then he is just summoning (ā-çrāvay-).

50. When [the distributor] assents, then he is just answering the summons.

51. When the servers, with drinking-vessels in their hands, both the former and the latter, go forward, they are just cup-bearing priests.

52. Of them, none soever is not an invoker (áhotṛ).

53. Verily when the lord of guests goes up unto the houses serving the guests, then he is even going down unto the purifactory bath (avabhṛ́tha).

54. When he apportions [them], he is apportioning sacrificial fees; when he follows [them], then he is even shifting the place of sacrifice (ud-ava-sā).